Bed Bugs In Hotels

[hellotraveler]

Its the same in India as is it everywhere else in the World, with hotels, you get what you pay for. If you're going to stay in a plush, expensive hotel, they are as luxurious in Mumbai as they are in LA, I should know, I've stayed in Hotels all over the World, at all sorts of levels of comfort. If you want a cheaper experience, you have to take greater care that you don't end up in a filthy hovel, research the place you're looking to stay in, use the internet and forums such as this to enquire about which budget hotels are the cleanest, safest, and the best value for money in the area. Personally, I've never encountered a dirty hotel in India, and I've stayed in a few cheaper ones, but I always research a cheaper hotel before I stay there, as much as I am able to.

Good to know. I've traveled to a lot of places (not India yet!), and what you say here is true. The cheaper the hotel, the more they usually try to cut corners, and the less cleanly the overall experience is. When I first started traveling around years ago, I made the mistake of trying to save money by staying at cheaper hotels. I definitely got what I paid for. Rashes, getting sick, and all. Ever since then, I've been really picky about what types of hotels I stay in and where. I haven't set an official travel date yet for India, but if I go, I'm going to refer back here to make sure I can bounce off a list of hotel names so that I know it's not going to be a creepy-crawly experience instead of a pleasant one.

 

[Benti]

You can never really know what kind of 'creatures' you might encounter when you stay in a hotel. The sad truth is that many guests bring them in themselves, and the hotel owners have no way of controlling that.

 

[Joanne]

I'm also very worried about bed bugs. I sure hope they don't have them in the hotel I'm staying at. One time in Mexico in the middle of the night I heard something in my room. When I turned on the light to see what it was I was shocked. It was some sort of giant moth. It was the biggest moth I had ever seen. At first I thought it was a bat or something like this. I couldn't get it out of the room. A person from the hotel came to my room and removed it. He told me they were quite common there.

 

[rz3300]

It really is concern everywhere you go, which is pretty interesting when you really think about it. I have been to Europe, where I heard about it, to India, where I heard about it, and to Canada, where I heard about it, so I am going to just go ahead and assume that you hear about it wherever you go, to some degree. The best thing that you can do is just be clean and be smart. It is certainly nothing worth messing up any plans over or letting it ruin a good vacation.

 

[sara.nm]

Like most people, I can't stand lack of cleanliness. and bed bugs could be really annoying and destroy your happy travel. I'd pay more to stay in a clean place.

 

[Travguy]

You usually get what you pay for. If you're staying at a cheap hotel there are chances of finding bugs, though not always. If you choose to stay in a good hotel that is absolutely clean it may cost you more, but it is well worth the money that pay.

 

[Dina]

I always stay in the best hotels in the city, usually a Holiday Inn and never go wrong as far as cleanliness is concerned. I did stay in a small lodge once when I was in an Asian country but I did not find any bed bugs there.

 

[Voyager]

I had bed bug problems when I traveled to Turkey last year and had to change hotels. I hope the situation is better in India, a least if I take up accommodation in some of the better hotels.

 

[Vnisha]

Nah I don't think so. In some of hotels such situation can be happen. Otherwise i would say - if bed sheets are clean and rooms are covered, you need not to worry for staying at hotel in India.